True or false: strict adherence to a theoretical model is an absolute requirement family therapy
What is false?
100
This theory of group work, according to Yalom & Lesczc, advocates group members with different interpersonal styles and dissimilar conflict resolution styles
What is dissonance theory?
100
This is the best determination of an appropriate ending in family therapy
What is the social worker and family determine that goals have been reached?
100
According to Yalom, a group composed of people with the same problem or issue is called this
What is a homogeneous group?
100
This is the term for the stage in which members assume appropriate group roles and work productively
What is performing?
200
This is the person in the family who has been labeled by the family as the "problem" or the cause of the tensions and difficulties the family is experiencing.
What is the identified patient?
200
This is the term for exposing a group member, under more favorable circumstances, to powerful emotional situations she had difficulty handling in the past
What is a corrective emotional experience?
200
This technique of structural family therapy involves having the family behave in the therapy setting the way that they behave when they are at home interacting.
What is enactment?
200
Yalom describes a person who is domineering and taking over all the work of the group using this term
What is the monopolist?
200
This benefit of group membership involves recognizing that "I am not alone."
What is universality?
300
The three main strategies of this type of family therapy are 1. Challenging the symptom
2. Challenging the family structure
3. Challenging the family reality
What is Structural Family Therapy?
300
According to Yalom, this is what happens when the group is actively avoiding something important
What is nothing else of import gets talked about either?
300
This strategy of structural family therapy involves helping the family reconsider what might be the problem, particularly if the therapist thinks the problem identified is actually the result of a different problem
What is challenging the symptom?
300
This is a concept that describes social competency in groups throughout the life span and a concept whose importance in group work cannot be overstated
What is belonging?
300
A client in a substance use group relapses. The therapist says to the client, "I am very disappointed in you. I thought you were better than this." This is an example of what?
What is countertransference?
400
This technique of structural family therapy involves increasing the emotional engagement of the family members with whom you are working
What is intensity?
400
Ideally, in order to select clients for group therapy, a worker will devise these to screen potential clients
What is exclusion criteria?
400
If a worker is engaged with family members who are blaming one another for the problem, they should attempt to do this
What is offer a perspective of the issue that incorporates both sides?
400
This is the term for what allows us (workers) to
1. organize information
2. see where to look
3. see what to listen for
4. give meaning to words and behaviors
What is theory?
400
This is a benefit of group therapy that allows members to have insight into the way that they are perceived by others and may contribute to these perceptions
What is self awareness?
500
Drawing a picture of progress together or jointly reviewing progress with a family are examples of this
What is a closing ritual?
500
This is the term for the nature of the relationships between group members, the way that they interact with one another
What is process?
500
This theoretical approach to working with families suggests that if the family is not doing well, the fault lies with the social worker
What is strategic family therapy?
500
This is the first stage of Yalom's group developmental theory
What is forming?
500
This is the therapeutic factor of group therapy in which members learn to share about themselves with the group